Scott Avtt Brothers Essay

Stomping around while strumming hard on the banjo, willing the crowd to sing along with his words, sprinting around the stage, clapping as his brother jams to his guitar solo, singing a quiet ballad alone on stage with an acoustic guitar, throwing his guitar high into the air at the end of a song and catching are all to be expected from Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers during one of their concerts. Avett has what appears to be an endless pool of energy, strings, and finger picks to pull from at every show he, his brother, and fellow bandmates play. The Avett Brothers capture the attention of their audience from the start of the concert and hold onto it until the very end as they play songs that range from emotional ballads to loud and energetic numbers (DCU). Scott Avett is responsible for writing the folk rock music with his brother, Seth Avett, that the band is known for.
Avett was no stranger to manual labor from a young age. In Concord, the Avett family lived on a 60 acre farm where Scott was responsible for caring for the livestock while also helping out in his father’s welding business. Avett was also no stranger to music (Guns and gardens). His father, when not running the farm and welding business, was a musician who focused mainly on country and gospel tunes (guns and garden). Scott Avett received piano, guitar, and banjo lessons. He and Seth Avett could be found recording music on cassette tapes. As the two brothers grew up, they eventually joined a band together known as Nemo which was a short lived rock-and-roll band. The brothers realized that hard rock was not right for them, so they left Nemo to form a folk and roots band together in 2001 known as the Avett Brothers which is still going strong to this day (the avett